20th annual Great North River Tugboat Race & Competition begins at 10 a.m. with a parade of tugs from the Hudson River’s Pier 84 to the start line- “Il Trovatore” at 8 p.m. screens for free on the plaza at Lincoln Center for the Met Opera Summer HD Festival
- Yankees home game at Yankee Stadium vs. the Orioles at 1:05 p.m. with a free BBQ apron for the first 18,000 guests 21 and over
- Brooklyn Cyclones home game at 5 p.m. at Coney Island’s MCU Park vs. Staten Island Yankees
- Roxette at the Beacon Theatre
- Ticketed Sunday PicNYC On Governors Island with a Sixpoint Beer Garden from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- Leftöver Crack at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 7:30 p.m.
- Alan Merrill, Starbolt 9, Hannah vs. The Many and Wise Girl at the Mercury Lounge at 7 p.m.
- SAUL WILLIAMS Presents CHORUS – A spoken word tour at Joe’s Pub at 7 and 9:30 p.m. (and Sept. 3)
- Ballet Hispanico performs at the free Harlem Meer Performance Festival from 2 to 4 p.m. at Central Park’s Charles A. Dana Discovery Center; weather permitting
- “Mary Poppins” screens for free at sundown at Habana Outpost
- International Center of Photography’s Sunday Mornings with Weegee: Breakfast and Guided Walking Tour at 9 a.m.
- Tour of Brooklyn’s Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims at 11:15 a.m.
- John Lennon Imagined: Beatles & Solo Years featuring The Nutopians at City Winery at 8 p.m.
- Municipal Art Society walking tour of Downtown: Nassau Street at 11 a.m.
- Bill O’Connell and the Latin Jazz All-Stars play Birdland at 9 and 11 p.m.
- ASSSSCAT 3000 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Upright Citizens Brigrade
- “Beauty Is Embarrassing” screens at the Crosby Street Hotel’s cinema at 8 p.m. with a Q&A with Wayne White
- Governors Island events include the Unicycle Festival, two-for-one early bird bike rentals and free Castle Williams tours
- A Taste of New Orleans on Park Ave. jazz mass at St. Bartholomew’s Church at 11 a.m.
- Free Central Park walking tours at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
- Comedy Night @ The Knit with Hannibal Buress at Knitting Factory Brooklyn at 9 p.m.
